1.   And yet Matton did not want the portraits to look so much like his actors that they lost the aura of the originals.

2.   But Detroit has lost the aura of invincibility and the air of inevitability that surrounded them when the tournament began a month ago.

3.   But innocence does not last, and the very young began to lose their aura.

4.   Hoffman had been Tom Gordon, West Coast version, but just like the Red Sox closer, he lost his aura of perfection when the stakes were highest.

5.   Some say Majestic will lose its aura and appeal once its secrets leak out on the Web.

6.   Sixty-one has lost its aura.

7.   The piano has lost its aura, and marketers are straining to give it another.

8.   The Taliban lost the aura of invincibility that had propelled them in their rise from obscurity to military and political predominance over the last three years.

9.   The technological world was given flesh and blood without losing its aura of science-fiction spookiness.

10.   Two years ago, in this same ring, Tyson lost his aura of invincibility.